🏰 Zangla Monastery

India · Asia · 33.67°N, 76.98°E

Current day Zangla village has no monastery, only a nunnery. Zangla Palace is sometimes called Zangla Monastery due to a mistake probably first made by Tivadar Duka, biographer of Alexander Csoma de Kőrös, and later by Ervin Baktay, an Indologist who visited Zangla in 1928 to identify the locations related to Alexander Csoma de Kőrös. Suffering from malaria, he described Zangla Palace – probably due to the shrine and the monks living there – as a monastery.

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Quick facts

Country	India
Continent / region	Asia
Coordinates (approx.)	33.67°N, 76.98°E · view on map

Zangla Monastery is located in India, in Asia.

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